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TIRE FOR CARRIAGE-WHEELS.

EZ E-CIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed September 6, 1586. Serial No. 212,836.

Patent No. 356,919, dated February 1, 1887.

(No model.) Patented in England January 5,1856, No. 191.

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Be it known that 1, JOHN UrBnn BURT, a citizen of England, residing at Swinton Street, in the county of Middlesex, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tires for XVheels of Carriages and other Vehicles, (for which I have applied for a patent in Great Britain, dated January 5, 1886, No. 191,) of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to the tires of wooden wheels, such as are used forcarriages and other vehicles, the object which I have in View being to provide for fixing the tire securely on the wheel without screws, rivets, or other fastenings, without weakening or damaging the follies, and with protection to the fcllies against damage lfrom curbs or other lateral obstructions. For this purpose, in forming the tire lusc a bar of iron or steel which has at one edge of it alight flange or projecting lip. I

bend this bar and weld it in the usual way to form a complete ring, and I turn the circumference of the fellies preferably with a slight slope inwardthct is to say, with the diameter next the vehicle a little less than that farthest from the vehicle. 1 heat the tire so as to expand it, and lay it on a not surface. I then drop the wheel into the heated tire. The tire, shrinking, binds itself firmlyon the wheel, its flange preventing it from shifting in the one direction and the slight conical form of the fellies preventing it from shifting in the other direction.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 structed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a section showing the tire and felly detaohed.

The tire A is made with an inwardly-pro jecting lip or flange, A, and its diameter at A is slightly smaller than at A the felly B being turned with a slight slope to correspond. On heating the tire it expands sufiiciently to allow the felly to enter through A so that when the tire is shrunk on it is held securely on the one side by the flange A and on the other side by the tapering form of the felly.

' Having thus described the nature of my invention and the best means I know for carrying the same into practical effect, I claiu1 A tire having on its one edge an inwardlyprojecting flange or lip and fitting with its inner surface upon a fellywhose diameter at the edge next the flange is slightly greater than that of the opposite edge, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two sub scribing witnesses, this 24th day of August, A. D. 1886.

J OHN UTBER BURT.

Witnesses:

OLIVER INNARE,

Patent Agent, L. V. BRINDLEY, Both of 28 Sozttha'nwton Buildings, London, W C.

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